Faucet attachment



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C A. RAGGIO.

Faucet Attachment.

No. 234,429. Patented Nov. 16,1880.

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CHARLES A. RAGGIO, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

FAUCET ATTACHIVI ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,429, dated November 16, 1880.

Application filed July 27, 1880.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLEs A. RAGGIO, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in FaucetAttachments or Cask- Stoppers; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which myinvention appertains to make and use the same, reference being' had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part here of, and in which- Figure 1 represents a longitudinal central section of a faucet attachment embodying my invention, excepting the valve, with its stem and spring', and the faucet-stem, which are shown in full. Fig. 2 represents the lower or exterior view of the valve, and Fig. 3 a top view of the same with the stem and valveguides cut across at the line x My invention relates io that class of tubular and screw-threaded cask-stoppers which are removably attached within the spi got-holes of casks, barrels, or kegs,and which are closed by means of a valve actuated by a spring, and which are opened by inserting the stein of a faucet therein; and my invention consists of the construction and combination ofthe several parts, as hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

In the drawings, A represents the stem of a smooth-stem faucet inserted into my improved faucet attachment and held in its place by the frictional contact of the elastic pack ing h, and the end thereof bearing against the ribs c of the valve B. Ihe ribs or projections e are attached to a disk, b, which also acts as a support to the elastic packing c, and the elastic packing' c rests against the valve d. An annular ring, with its edge resting against the end ofthe faucet-stem and forming a part ofthe disk b, and provided with holes for the passage of liquids, may be used in place of the ribs c on the disk b.

All the parts c b c d together form the valve B, which is attached to the stem f, around which is coiled the spring g, resting against (No model.)

the valve with one end, and the other against the top of the guides or housing i, and between the two parallel sides t' fi of the housing the valve with its stem reciprocates as it is acted upon by the spring g and faucet-stein A.

As shown in the drawings, the valve Bis raised from its seat a by means of the faucetstem A, which bears against the ribs e c of the valve B as the faucet-stem is driven into the packing It, and the passage through the faucet is thereby opened.

The sides of the housing t are made wide enough so that the segment of the circle which they will inclose will form a guide to the valve B as it reciprocates to and from its seat when in use.

The elastic packing lt, with its surrounding screw-thread and all the other immediately surrounding parts up to the valve-seat a, is the same as shown and described in Letters Patent No. 228,219, granted to me June 1, 1880, and to the interior end of winch I attach the housing 'i 't' and the operating parts, as hereinbefore described.

It will be observed that through the center of the arched part of the housing 'i the valvestem f is passed through a hole bored therein, which forms a guide. for it.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A faucet attachment or cash-stopper consisting' of a shell having a recess in its interior and outer end and provided with an elastic packing, It, valve-seat c, parallel concaved and arched guides t' i on its inner end, for the purpose of guiding and operating the valve B, valve B, provided with the wings c, stem j', and spring g, in combination with a smooth-stem faucet, all'constructed and arranged substantially as shown and described.

CHARLES A. RAGGIO.

Witnesses:

WM. ZIMMERMAN, N. GoWLEs. 

